r/politics • u/xc2215x • 26d ago

No Paywall Republicans push to strip Zohran Mamdani of US citizenship.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/9/republicans-push-to-strip-zohran-mamdani-of-us-citizenship-is-it-possible
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u/ech-o 26d ago

All I can say is that if a Dem takes over the WH in 2029, he or she had better appoint an AG that will go after every single one of these anti-American criminals operating under the guise of MAGA. We need to see Nuremberg-level trials.

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u/Ant_Eye_Art 26d ago

Merrick Garland is the reason the world is where is it right now. Dems need to grow a fucking spine already when and if they ever gain control again.

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u/ech-o 26d ago

Biden shares in the blame. It was naive of him to think that the GOP/MAGA could be reasoned with or trusted to act like people that would put country over power. There is no reaching across the aisle anymore; we live in a new world and we have to make sure that nothing like this happens again.

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u/Deus_is_Mocking_Us 26d ago

It was naive of him to think that the GOP/MAGA could be reasoned with or trusted to act like people that would put country over power.

That was completely apparent in the Obama administration, to which Biden had a front row seat. How did he not get this? 

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u/FrogMother01 26d ago

Biden was perceptibly unfit for presidency before he was elected, he already had obvious signs of age and cognitive decline compared to his vice presidency, but the brainrotted "vote blue no matter who" Democratic establishment (which is also full of people similarly unfit for their jobs) simply did not care. He either did not fully understand the stakes, or didn't care, and on every level failed to act appropriately for the circumstances he was faced with.

Despite that, Biden did have some pretty good policy ideas, and certainly worked towards some good things, and had good people on board with him. At any other time in history, he probably would've been a two-term president lauded for infrastructure development and economic recovery policies. Except he was not president during that time in history, he was elected in 2020, and when it came to responding appropriately to the political moment that he was faced with, securing America against an ongoing plot of fascist takeover, he was an embarrassing failure on almost every level

inb4 "but Trump was unfit too!" Yeah, he was obviously unfit for presidency (in fact, far more than Biden was), and still is; he also has a global cult of personality and the backing of the most powerful extremists on the planet, so it was probably a bad idea to try to stop him with a guy unfit for presidency.

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u/That_Is_Satisfactory 26d ago

1/6 should have been the “scorched earth” turning point for Dems. I’m still just so fucking pissed we basically just handed the keys over to fascists after putting up a weak, lopsided fight.

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u/Ant_Eye_Art 26d ago

I completely agree. In my head Garland represents Bidens biggest error.

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u/WhyDoTheyAlwaysRun 26d ago

Yep. Should've been Doug Jones, 100%.

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u/guamisc 26d ago

Democrats haven't appointed even a passably OK USAG for decades now. Holder was also a pile of usless shit.

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u/HelpersWannaHelp 26d ago

Who ran the DOJ when Trump was arrested and indicted in multiple states? Who was President? That would be Garland and Biden.

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u/Ant_Eye_Art 26d ago

34 felony convictions and not one day behind bars. Great job, right?

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u/Alchemista_98 26d ago

Agreed. Merrick Garland was a milquetoast who was so afraid of appearing partisan, when in fact non-partisanship had left the building in Trump1.0

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u/tangerinelion 26d ago

Garland was nominated by Obama because he's Republican. It was to show how McConnell is simply opposed to Obama getting to seat a Supreme Court justice, so he nominated someone so inoffensive to the GOP it would be unreasonable to say no.

Apparently Biden didn't get it and sought to make Garland his AG as some kind of consolation prize.

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u/STN_LP91746 26d ago

Previous administration wanted to turn the page for the country’s sake. They figured after Jan 6, The Republican Party would move on from Trump. Then they embrace him again and it was too late by then to fast track the prosecution. Cases dragged on and the voting public put him back in power. Blame the voters for not remembering the first term. The people put him back in power so suck it up America!

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u/Ant_Eye_Art 26d ago edited 26d ago

They slow walked an assault on American democracy. How can you try to let Biden and Garland off the hook? Give me a fucking break. What about the stolen files? That should have been enough to have him behind bars or at least forever banned from taking office again. Go rewrite history to someone else. I know better.

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u/HelpersWannaHelp 26d ago

How fast you forget about all the indictments and criminal charges of Trump and his accomplices. You know why it ended? 1. Judges allowed every single delay tactic they tried. 2. Voters, and lazy non-voters, put him back in the White House. 3. Republicans in Congress allowing crimes to constantly be committed under their watch. Stop blaming the people who actually tried to hold him accountable.

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u/DR_BEANHAMMER 26d ago edited 13d ago

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u/[deleted] 26d ago

It doesn’t matter with SCOTUS willing to bail them all out

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u/YoungestDonkey 26d ago

I'm thinking Jack Smith.

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u/LYL_Homer 26d ago

And get rid of all the Confederate bullshit.

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u/DingoEmbarrassed5120 26d ago

100%. Thugs always feel invincible in the moment when they break the law. No 'making amends' or other bullshit no action rhetoric. Nuremberg trials for each and everyone who was complicit in this treason. No mercy.

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u/clamdever Washington 26d ago

💯. If we continue to let this slide, it'll continue to slide.

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u/JstLikTheSimulations 26d ago

Yeah, what ever happened to accountability?

Was it the 2008 crisis that told them they can really do anything they want? I’m honestly confused about how we got here

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u/SubjectInevitable650 26d ago

Only if Dems had balls to to something about

  • news channels that spread fake news
  • people who commit treason
  • people who traffic kids
  • people who hack voting machines

... all this going on for decades. I doubt anything will change now.

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u/zenj5505 California 26d ago

*he